Pune police bust illegal arms units in MP; 36 detained, weapons seized

PUNE: (Nov 23) The Pune police have busted a major inter-state illegal arms manufacturing and trafficking racket being operated from a village in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani district, detaining 36 persons and seizing a huge cache of weapons, officials said.

The police launched a crackdown in Madhya Pradesh's Umarti village, located around 500 km from Maharashtra's Pune city, after several pistols were seized here over the last three weeks, with the supply links found in MP, the officials said on Saturday.

During the operation, carried out jointly with the MP police, 50 furnaces, where weapons were being manufactured illegally, were destroyed, they said.